The pregnancy diaries by Dunja Knezevic

Week 4: Yesterday may just have been the happiest day of my life. I can’t even tell you how long I’d been waiting for that stick to say ‘pregnant’, only to then dumbly stare at it for a couple of minutes, a million thoughts rushing through my head, before screaming, running and jumping around the house. Looney!

Week 8: The first trimester must be the toughest. I have never felt so exhausted in all my life. Doesn’t help that I’ve had the flu and been very busy at work, but still, this type of tiredness is not something I’d ever encountered before.  I will dose off anywhere. On the hair and makeup chair, standing in the Sainsbury’s queue, the five minute taxi ride fro m the station to home, on the tube. Even at dinner with the girls if it goes on for more than two hours. Everyone keeps assuring me that my energy will come back though, bring on the second trimester!

The list of symptoms is pretty endless though, the lethargy is just the start. Itchy dry skin, nausea, cramps, mood swings, heightened emotions, leg cramps, headaches, and the list goes on.  But pregnancy hormones must really be working hard to also combat these symptoms cause through it all, I sit there on my sofa with a big smile on my face, feeling pure bliss thinking about the little life growing inside me.